“I believe that a key pathway to victory is to continue to expand our electorate and reach all voters. That is why I have made it a priority to talk to a broad array of potential media partners, including Fox News. Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates. Therefore, Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates.”

Obviously President No Puppet had some thoughts on this:

Democrats just blocked @FoxNews from holding a debate. Good, then I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!

On the one hand, moderate Democrats are worried that by not hosting a debate on Fox News, they won’t be able to reach out to persuadable Fox News voters who might be looking for an alternative to Trump. On the other hand, it’s unclear that Fox News voters are going to be persuaded by any Democratic candidate, moderate or no. (And as the daughter of two Fox News viewers — neither of whom liked Trump during the primaries but now support him — I’m here to tell you, they are not persuadable.)

On the one hand, Fox News does have a few honest journalists who I genuinely believe would moderate the debate fairly, including Shep Smith, Martha McCallum, and Chris Wallace. On the other hand, Fox News is just straight-up State Media propaganda at this point, come on.

On the one hand, denying Fox News a debate just plays right into the Propagandist-in-Chief’s and the Right’s hands and allows them to perpetuate the narrative that Democrats are snowflakes who are scared to be confronted with the “truth” or defend their positions or whatever. On the other, these assholes were going to spin the narrative aroudn these debates to their benefit no matter what happened.

Sending Love & Prayers To Alex Trebek🙏🏻.I’ve Been Playing JEOPARDY With Him Since I Was In My 20’s,..Ahhh..30’s, 🤔Hhmm…40’s😱,..50’s🤔, OMG..60’s🤔 I’LL NEVER BE TOO OLD TOPLAY.SON Used To Say”Cher…You’re Such a Kid”👧🏻

A couple of things about Alex Trebek: Our own Whitney was on Jeopardy once — against Ken Jennings, in fact, whom she had to loan a dime at lunch (it was a dime, right, Whit?) — and had lovely things to say about Mr. Trebek.

As for me, I tried out for Teen Jeopardy when I was only 13 or so, and didn’t make it in part because the test we had to take had SO MANY SPORTS QUESTIONS ON IT. We had a Q&A with Alex Trebek after taking the test, and I asked him WHY THERE HAD TO BE SO MANY SPORTS QUESTIONS ON THE TEST. He laughed and reminded me that it is a trivia competition, but I feel like this clip validates my argument:

R.I.P.

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Superstore: Dina and Garrett babysit on the season premiere. 7 p.m., NBC

Station 19: The team searches for Andy and Sullivan in the mid-season premiere. 8 p.m., ABC

For the People: Those teenagers and their crazy “swatting.” Season premiere. 9 p.m., ABC

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